Potential is HUGE.
Steve said that the first market they are going to attact with ClipStream are web developers.
I was curious how big this market might be. How many web developers are there? Very difficult to get any numbers on this. Anyone know?
Closest thing I found was from the website of James Blake Internet, a leading web developer in England. The info show 2007 numbers. In the internet world 6 years is an eternity so we can only assume very large growth since then. Here's what they say:
"So, how many are there?
A survey in 2007 showed that more than ten million people had made a website at one time or another. With another five years having passed, that number is sure to have grown. Some 2009 calculations showed that they estimated approximately twelve million people around the world were ‘professional’ website or software developers, in that they received payment for their skills in some form. Of course, with the number of freelance web developers now working across the globe it is very difficult to put an exact number on how many there are in total. Looking purely at Elance.com, one of the web’s main freelance marketplaces, there are almost 100,000 individual web developers registered on the website, giving just some indication of the number of skilled individuals out there.
As internet usage continues to grow throughout the UK, western world and indeed throughout the world as a whole, it seems inevitable that greater numbers of web developers will enter the industry. With more and more businesses deciding to get online nowadays (in fact, the vast majority already are) the need for talented web developers is now greater than ever, having created a whole new industry which simply did not exist just twenty years ago. In times of great economic uncertainty, being able to put approximately twelve million people into work due to the evolution of a whole new industry is something quite extraordinary and could even be credited with having taken the sharp edge off of the worldwide recession. Either way, it’s a huge industry and it’s one which is only growing larger with every day."
So if just in this segment Destiny signed up 5000 @ an average fee of $200 per month, it would represent $12M in annual revenues which would be a 10 fold increase from current revs.
